Screen size

[kendalbren]

Hi. I have a problem. I'm new to dreamweaver and am designing my first site. I have a 17" monitor and a screen res of 1024 x 768. The page looks fine on my monitor but on a smaller screen res such as 800 x 600 the user needs to use scroll bars which is obviously bad. I want to center flash animations on the screen regardless of its size or res. Someone must be able to help me. Thanx.

 

[chiph]

I'm new to Dreamweaver too, so I don't know the "official" way to do this, but what I've seen done in the past is put the contents of your page into a one-cell table that has the "CENTERED" attribute set on it.

What I've also been doing in DW, is resize my work window so that it's 740 pixels wide. I then constrain my work to that size. That way I'm fairly sure that people viewing it won't have to use scroll bars (horizontally, at least!)

Chip H.

 

[johntabita]

Keep in mind that more than 50% of web surfer have their monitors set at 800x600. After that comes 1024x768 (28%), then 640x480 (7-12%)

One of the biggest no-no's of website usability is forcing the user to scroll horizonally in order to read, so be sure to test your designs at all three resolutions.

John T.

 

[TulsaJeff]

are you using only flash on your page or is it a mix of HTML and Flash?

If you are using only Flash, is it one single flash movie or several per page?

This makes a big difference as to how this question needs to be answered.

 

[kendalbren]

Hi. I am using a mix of HTML and Flash. I have around 3 or 4 different flash animations on the page. Thanx.